As far as AD is concerned, Jeffrey Tambor has been on more canceled series than any actor besides Ted McGinley.
Posted on 11/11/2005 10:11:58 AM PST by My Favorite Headache
'Arrested Development' gets the ax '7th Heaven' also ending run
Friday, November 11, 2005; Posted: 12:47 p.m. EST (17:47 GMT)
The cast of the Emmy-winning "Arrested Development." The show was never a ratings winner.
Manage Alerts | What Is This? LOS ANGELES, California (Hollywood Reporter)Reuters -- The Camdens will bid farewell to viewers in May when the WB Network's top-rated family drama "7th Heaven" ends its run after 10 seasons in what sources said was largely a cost-cutting move.
The Bluth clan of Fox's ratings-challenged "Arrested Development" is also headed for the exit after Fox cut the third-season order on the Emmy-winning comedy to 13 episodes.
Also getting the ax at Fox is "Arrested's" companion on Monday, the freshman comedy "Kitchen Confidential," whose order will not be extended beyond the initial 13 episodes.
"7th Heaven," whose debut on August 26, 1996, marked the first-ever Monday broadcast of the then-fledging WB Network, will bow out as the longest-running family drama on television.
After 10 seasons, the show is still a top draw for WB, averaging 5.1 million viewers this season to date. Creatively, the show also will go out in style, creator Brenda Hampton said.
"I think this is the best season we've ever had, and we're planning a very exciting and heartwarming conclusion to the series," she said. "On the show, we talk about choosing your feelings, and we chose to feel happy and blessed to have been on the air for so long."
There is talk about a potential "7th Heaven" spinoff, but Hampton admits that would be hard to do.
"('7th Heaven') is a family show," she said. "I think the success of the show is that the family is intact with the mom, the dad and the children, so it is a very difficult show to spin off."
Sources indicated that the reasons to take "7th Heaven" off the air were primarily financial. As series age, they get more and more expensive, with the price tag especially high for a show with a large cast like "7th Heaven." The cancellation of the long-running series also comes during a process of extensive cost-cutting across all Warner Bros. divisions.
As for the demise of "Arrested," it comes just as the acclaimed comedy came back this week after a hiatus to make room for Fox's baseball coverage. The two back-to-back episodes averaged a paltry 4 million viewers Monday, sending Fox to fifth place in the 8 p.m. hour and putting a dent on the ratings of its lead-out, the rookie drama "Prison Break."
There is a possibility that the show will be shopped around, but its high cost is expected to be prohibitive for a cable network.
Fox said Thursday that it will pull "Arrested Development" and "Kitchen Confidential" off the schedule for the remaining three Mondays of the November sweep, replacing them with a rerun of the previous episode of "Prison Break" leading into an original episode of the serialized drama.
"Arrested" and "Kitchen" are set to return to their time slots with original episodes December 5, following the fall finale of "Prison Break" on November 28.
Copyright 2005 Reuters.
I really hope some cable network can scrape up the money for Arrested Development.
They oughtta just go to an "All Simpsons, All The Time" format.
"Arrested Development" had promise, but often grabbed at the stupid, juvenile, and inane, rather than at the sublimely absurd and ridiculous.
Oh well.
Another Lesbian out of work. I am depressed.
That's a shame about Arrested Development -- probably the funniest network show on TV these days. As for 7th Heaven, it's about 3-4 years too late; the show should have wrapped up ages ago.
As far as AD is concerned, Jeffrey Tambor has been on more canceled series than any actor besides Ted McGinley.
7th Heaven was never my cup of tea, but it seems to have gotten stupider through time.
Arrested Development is one of the funniest shows I've ever seen on television. A real bummer...
Arresting Development was stuck in a 9:30 slot with no lead in. Then it was moved to an earlier slot, but still didn't have any comparable companion.
I watched it a few times, but kept forgetting that it was on.
I love the show House....that rules. I think Arrested Development will wind up on Showtime or the WB. I don't think the final nail has happened yet on this show. Not with the awards it gets and the DVD sales of the show are pretty strong.
I like 7th Heaven in the beginning but, unfortunately, it's become the same old stuff. Kids having sex, getting pregnant, parents clueless.
Yeah, but you never know... I mean it's like they've got the worst (bleep)ing lawyers or something.
I'll miss
Arrested Development ..
again. ;-)
A mirror on society displaying all the quirkiness of all too many families across the nation today., imo. lol
Same here...and the same thing happened with NBC's Freaks and Geeks which ruled the earth of my TV world a few years ago. Amazing show but was thrown onto 4 different nights and times. Nobody knew when it was on to watch!
Agreed. Its "creative exhaustion" became apparent several years ago.
Ted McGinley is on that ABC show with Kelly Rippa...I give that one maybe two more seasons...just enough to run in horrible syndication on TBS or WGN at 4:30 pm.
AD is a great show. I love that all these people from Happy Days are on it.
I think that it is one of the few shows that I watch.
I liked Arrested developmant, but when they start jerking the time slot around, it's all over.
Celebrity Justice was also canned as well....awww...prolly because of this new TMZ.com that is about to be launched.
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